NewTek Qualifies Medéa's Disk Arrays for Video Toaster

Medéa Corp.'s VideoRaid RTR and VideoRaid RTRX disk arrays have been qualified by NewTek for use with the company's new Video Toaster, a Windows 2000-based live video production environment. NewTek cited VideoRaid's reliability and ability to protect content during a disk-drive failure. VideoRaid RTR and VideoRaid RTR

Medéa Corp.'s VideoRaid RTR and VideoRaid RTRX disk arrays have been qualified by NewTek for use with the company's new Video Toaster, a Windows 2000-based live video production environment. NewTek cited VideoRaid's reliability and ability to protect content during a disk-drive failure.

VideoRaid RTR and VideoRaid RTRX are designed for digital content creation applications such as 2D/3D animation, compositing, special effects, game development and non-linear video editing. The RTR family features an Ultra160 SCSI interface that enables the desktop models to sustain a data transfer rate of up to 130 MBps. The dual-channel, rack-mountable models sustain over 200 MBps, enough to support 10-bit, 1080i HD capture and playback.

Medea has launched its new VideoRaid FCR2/FCR2X fibre channel RAID storage arrays, designed for high bandwidth applications. The VideoRaid FCR2 is outfitted with a single channel 2 GB fibre channel interface and offers data transfer rates of 180 Mbps and the FCR2X handles transfer rates of up to 320 Mbps. Also, the FC